Tales to Astonish #19

(May 1961)

Rommbu! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Kirby

Inks:

Dick Ayers

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-138

Content Information

Genre:

monsters

Characters:

Rommbu; Pete Hunter; John Hunter

Synopsis:

An escaped geologist convicted of armed robbery leads an alien invader to an active volcano in order to sacrifice himself to destroy the alien and protect the planet.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 (January 1971)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2

Indexer Notes

This story is divided into two untitled parts (6 pp, 7 pp). Rommbu next appears in Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl (Marvel, 2005 series) #1 (December 2005).

The Tree (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

K-435

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Wally Hadley

Synopsis:

When a family moves to a house in the country their son finds a gnarled little tree on their land that grants wishes.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Strange Stories of Suspense (Marvel, 1955 series) #11 (October 1956)

Indexer Notes

Text story with illustration.

The Thing With the Red Eyes (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Don Heck

Inks:

Don Heck

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-139

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Vince Kane; Al Rocco

Synopsis:

A gangster buys a pincushion doll that looks like his rival, and his reactions to pins stuck in it convince him that it works. He throws the doll out the window of a tall building, but his rival has altered the doll to look like him instead.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 (January 1971)
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2

Indexer Notes

Narrated in the second person.

The Terrible Trap! (Table of Contents)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Steve Ditko

Inks:

Steve Ditko

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

V-137

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Bart Magor; Zomok

Synopsis:

A hunter with contempt for the animals he captures is captured by giant aliens and placed in a maze from which he can see a rocketship he could use to pilot his way home if only he could figure out how to escape the maze.

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• in Where Monsters Dwell (Marvel, 1970 series) #7 (January 1971) [without page 3; reprinted without page 3]
• in Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 2006 series) #2